Button Moon – Page 3 – Off The Edge Gardening

Another

Another hydrangea, and why not? It has made the effort to flower, and so beautifully. Today on Button Moon, glowing in the low and most welcome sunlight, it was hard to believe that it wasn’t blooming just for our delectation. Of course it doesn’t care a fig what we think.

Demarcation

After very enjoyable, but rather hectic, weekend it was a treat to spend the day on Button Moon. Even better I was joined by my friend Pickle. First we surveyed the garden. I was looking for progression and regression in order to make an accurate assessment of horticultural jobs and their relative urgency. Pickle wasContinue reading “Demarcation”

Bright Side

There are some advantages to persistent mizzle, even when you are out in it all day, stewing like an old turnip in head to toe waterproofs, the only ventilation provided by a leaking boot. They are as follows: Good company, both human and canine, although a degree of encouragement was dispensed from the dry sideContinue reading “Bright Side”

Pursuit

The annual wildflower mix on Button Moon is still going strong, with tickseed and late marigolds beginning to take over from the linum and nigella. This is great news not only for us but for the host of pollinators who are enjoying these riches. Today I pursued, in the nicest non stalker like way, aContinue reading “Pursuit”

Weeds and Wildflowers

One of my first tasks on Button Moon was to pick out the weeds from a sowing of wildflowers. I was stumped. Wildflowers. Weeds. Aren’t they the same thing? I was worried that my dumbfounded look was not impressing my new employers. Pickle the Jack Russell looked disappointed at my reticence. The silence was awkward.Continue reading “Weeds and Wildflowers”

Slippery

This morning I spent an educational moment or three studying a bee who was trying to exit a campanula flower. Mrs Buzz-u-like’s drawers were full of pollen and she was slip-sliding and wheel spinning, as if her path was lined with treacle. Perhaps it was. It was pure slapstick. And educational of course. I learnedContinue reading “Slippery”